Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam set to be grilled at first Legco Q&A session
City’s newly inaugurated leader likely to face tough questions on her manifesto pledges and promises
She will also announce plans to give an extra recurrent expenditure of HK$5 billion on education, a manifesto pledge which she hopes to get Legco’s endorsement for before it breaks for the summer later this month.
Holding the session on her fifth day in office is seen as a gesture to show Lam’s determination to improve the soured relationship between the executive and the legislative branches, but the pan-democrats are not going to give her an easy time, preparing to fire hard questions targeting her election promises and covering political controversies.
Shiu Ka-chun, lawmaker for the welfare sector, said he would ask Lam whether she had changed her stance on the Basic Competence Assessment (BCA), a territory-wide examination for primary school pupils some educators say is undesirable because of the associated high-pressure drilling methods.